Broom-handle.



No. 634,631. Y l Patented oct. lo, 1399.

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j UNITED STATES PATlazNT OFFICE ARTHUR s; innemen BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

sPnoIFIcATIoN 'formingpart of Letters Patent Nonsens?, atea october' 1o,ieee.

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in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel broom, bywhich to facilif Y tate sweepingof floors, carpets, (itc.

My improved broom has a handle composed oi two 'parts connected by anindependent elastic or yielding section, herein represented as a'spiralspring. 'j'

Figure l of the drawings represents a broom embodying my invention; andFig. 2l shows a side elevation of the broom, it being shown as beingflexed and acting' upon the loor. This iigure shows the,VA springinsection. f

Thefbroom-headAis and maybeof any usual materiall andvform, it havingconnected with it an extension B, preferably of wood, itcorresponding,substantially with lthe usual handle of a broom.jT-hesectionBis short' and is herein shownasreduced in diameter,

y yasiat B. l .Cooperating with this 'section B- is the main part ofthehandle C, it, a'skhereinV represented, having'alsoafreduced partV C'.

These two parts are venteredwithin a spiral spring D, which constitutesan elastic section or junction between the main part ofthe handle C andthejauxilary part B.

I have shown the' reduced `parts B and 'C' as cut off at a'slant', andbetween their meet-l n ing ends, inside tlie spring, I preferably placela piece of felt or other suitable yielding inaterial, ash).r v

'-tervals suitabl ,two subscribing witnesses.` y

ARTHUR'snnnnuV The reduced parts B C may be forced into the spiralspring suiiiciently tight to be held therein firmly,v or I may add atsuitable ine staples, as a.

Iam awarerof United States Patent No.

483,477, grantedv September 27, 1892, and I do not therefore claim,broadly', the interpo sition. of a spring in a broom-handle, as shown insaid patent.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby LettersA Patent, is-

? 1.` As an article of manufacture, a broom having a handle providedadjacent the head of the broom with two parts B', C', said parts havingoverlapping ends, and a spiral spring inclosing said overlapping endsand extending about the said two parts of the handle for vrsome distanceabove and below said overlap ping ends, substantially as described. Y

having a handle provided adjacent thehead of the broom with two parts,said parts hav- 2. As an articleof manufacture,-a broom ing overlappingends, a piece of yielding material being interposed between said ends,and a spring inclosingsaid overlapping ends and-extendingl about'fthesaid two parts of the handle for some distanceV above and beL Ydescribed. y t

In testimony whereof I have signed my nametothis specification in thepresence of Vitnesses:

'Gno.-W. GREGORY,

AUGUSTA E. DEAN. l

low' said overlapping ends, lsubstantially as

